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Show BOLSHEViKI SEEK TO RAISE BIG ARMY PLAN TO SECURE THREE MILLION MEN TO PUT DOWN THE IMPERIALISTS. Execution by Blood-Hungry Reds are a Daily Occurrence, Thousands of Prisoners Being in Daily Danger of Execution. New York. The Bolsheviki are trying try-ing to raise an army of 3,000,000 to put down the conservative element in Russia, whom they term imperialists, Captnin Platon Oustinoff, formerly of the second life Hussars, and who left Petrograd October 30, declared on his his awival hereon December 16 on the Stockholm. A veteran of the Russian invasion of East Prussia early in the war, when he was wounded three times, the son of the Russian consul general at New York, Captain Oustinoff said that the government had forbidden citizens to leave the country, and he was able to depart only because he was classed as an invalid. Executions by the Bolsheviki Bol-sheviki were a daily occurrance, he stated, and thousands of conservatives were held by the radicals as hostages, so as to provde victims of revenge in etwe officials were killed. After the recent slaying of a minister of the interior, in-terior, he asserted, the "reds" shot 512 officers of the former imperial regime. re-gime. Food is so scarce, the captain said, that horseflesh sells for 10 rubles the pound and black bread for twelve rubles the loaf, when it can be obtained ob-tained at all. |